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AI innovation for wholesale and distribution businesses. The lowdown on Bubo AI, the Yorkshire-based startup that's using AI to create value-based pricing for wholesale and distribution businesses. Anyone who has offered services or sold products in practically any capacity has probably known the struggle of deciding what to charge. Most of us want to make a profit, obviously, without hurtin...
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The insurance that's powered by the cycling community...  No one can surely be a big fan of insurance companies? They are generally thought of the world over as the soulless entities you must pledge money to in return for the vague idea that if anything should happen, you might possibly be somewhat protected from having to pay even more for repairs... But insurance does work, and ...
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First electric-powered flight of commercial-scale aircraft from a UK airfield takes place... Innovative news for the aviation industry with the announcement that ZeroAvia, the leading innovator in decarbonising commercial aviation have conducted the first ever electric-powered flight of a commercial-scale aircraft carried out in the UK. Yesterday’s test flight from Cranfield Airport is a s...
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The lowdown on Spotless Water, the startup that's disrupting ultra pure water distribution Purified water is not that widely employed by the average person on a day to day basis, but for some, it is essential. Aquarium owners don’t want their fish swimming around in tap water, which is full of chemicals, heavy metals and minerals, and which may have those fish swimming upside down in no tim...
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The lowdown on Gravity, the innovative startup that enables other startups to build apps easier than ever before... It started as an idea over coffee in a co-working space in Chiang Mai and quickly became a successful startup with almost $10k/mo in revenue with no office, no employees and no investors.Kyle Gawley has been building apps since the day he got his first computer in 1997, but one prob...
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The lowdown on ten80, the innovative digital platform that enables SAP clients to connect with SAP experts globally... If you are in the middle of London or New York or Tokyo, finding the right people to work on your project might not be such a big problem. In fact whittling down the candidates may be the tricky part now that a global recession looks evermore likely. But outside of hubs such as ...
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The 2020 Invent competition Semi-finalists are revealed... Catalyst has announced the 18 NI semi-finalists who have progressed to the next stage of local innovation competition Invent 2020. Catalyst’s annual Invent competition sponsored by Bank of Ireland UK highlights local businesses that demonstrate innovation in their fields and can prove the commercial viability of a new idea. The...
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The lowdown on TailHail, the Newcastle-based startup that's innovating in the private flying sector Have you ever watched a film where the characters are in a private plane, being flown in peace and quiet to their destination and thought, just for a moment, that you would like to experience the luxury and sense of importance that comes from having a plane to yourself? Right before the environmen...
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Polystream becomes an Epic MegaGrants recipient... Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, has awarded a 'MegaGrant' to Polystream, a deep-tech startup and the world’s most scalable real-time 3D content and application delivery platform, to further enhance its content development platform.The Epic MegaGrants program has been created to support game developers, enterprise professionals, media...
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Applications are now open for the fifth intake of the Lloyd’s Lab, with a focus on short, medium and long-term COVID-19 challenges and responses.  Lloyd’s is urgently seeking as many high-quality new applications as possible from startups who can introduce ideas that directly support customer and economic recovery in the short term, as well as ideas to help build resilience to fu...
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